DeCoMaP: Detecting Corruption in Public Procurement
The societal benefits of opening up public data are expected to be huge. This is particularly true with Public Procurement Data which are supposed to help discover and dismantle corrupt activities by facilitating critical information, tools, and mechanism for judicial enforcement. In a multidisciplinary project, bridging computer science, economics and law, DeCoMap is intended to collect, process and analyze French procurement data in order to create a software tool for automatic identification of corruption and fraud in public procurement (automated red flagging) and provide normative analytical grid by highlighting the main factors that public authorities should identify and pay attention to. Supported by Transparency International France and Open Contracting Partnership, DeCoMap brings together academic researchers from 7 universities, with strong expertise in procurement and digital law, procurement economics and econometrics, law and economics, graph optimization and complex network analysis. 4 members of Datactivist, a cooperative company that assists organizations from the public, private and non-profit sectors in producing and re-using Open Data, with strong expertise with open data of public procurement, open contracting and open government, complement the consortium.
- Date: 2019–2024
- Website: https://decomap.univ-avignon.fr
- ANR page: https://anr.fr/Projet-ANR-19-CE38-0004